Ohio Constitutional Data Ban Follows Mills by Seventy-Two Hours
Maine signed a statute. Ohio is gathering signatures this weekend for a constitutional amendment that would bypass any legislature, forever. Federalism's AI cascade has a second rung.
Technology
Anthropic's Two-Track Week — A Figma Board Exit, a Figma Replacement, and an Opus That Knows Too Much
In four days the company exited one company's board, launched a product against it, and shipped a capped model because the uncapped one finds zero-days.
Iran Restores Its Internet and Unit 42 Names a New Cluster Aimed at Allen-Bradley
The 47-day blackout ended Thursday. Hours later Unit 42 published a threat brief on CL-STA-1128, a new cluster targeting Rockwell Allen-Bradley PLCs. The blackout was preparation.
Claude Opus 4.7 Lands, and r/ClaudeAI Goes 70 Percent Negative
Anthropic's new Opus 4.7 scored four points higher than 4.6 on the Artificial Analysis index, and three-quarters of its own subreddit said it felt worse to use.
Stanford Quantifies the Gap, and the Number is Fifty Points
Seventy-three percent of U.S. AI experts expect a positive impact on work; twenty-three percent of the public agrees. The Stanford AI Index has finally given the chasm a number.
Virginia Counties Reach for HB1515 After It Died in Richmond
HB1515 died in a Virginia committee in February; this week, three county boards put its language on local zoning agendas, citing Maine. Federalism has dropped another layer.
ChatGPT Ads Cross Three More Borders in the Week the CEO's Home Was Attacked
OpenAI added Australia, Canada, and New Zealand to its ChatGPT ad pilot on April 16, the same week a molotov cocktail and a gunshot hit Sam Altman's San Francisco home.
Altman's Home Is Attacked Twice in Three Days as ChatGPT Goes International
A molotov cocktail Friday; a gunshot Sunday. In between, a New Yorker profile and the international ad rollout. The physical and political costs of monetization week arrived on schedule.
FDA Writes the First Standard for CRISPR Safety, and the Rare-Disease Pathway Follows
The FDA's April 15 draft guidance is the first standardized safety framework for CRISPR, base-editing, and prime-editing therapies, paired with a rare-disease pathway modeled on Baby KJ.
City Methane Is Three Times the Inventory, and a Tenth of the Human Total
Satellite data finds cities emit roughly ten percent of global human methane, three times official inventories; livestock and sewer systems are the underreported sources.